Quantitative effects of GABA and bicuculline methiodide on receptive field properties of neurons in real and simulated whisker barrels

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 547-560

  Kyriazi, Harold T ^a   Carvell, George E ^a   Brumberg, Joshua C ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0030006137     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.75.2.547     Document Type: Article

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